Tender was jogging back to his goal. Gotta sprint bud.

That said, he starts back to his net @ :13 and the ball crosses the line @ :26. Not sure about this particular pitch, but estimate 100m length. Would need to be very fast indeed to make it back in time since he was right up at the opposing goal.

From Wiki:

Freddy Mercury:

"...who was a Parsi born in Zanzibar and grew up there and in India until his mid-teens, has been referred to as "Britain's first Asian rock star". In 2006, Time Asia named him as one of the most influential Asian heroes of the past 60 years, and he continues to be voted one of the greatest singers in the history of popular music. In 2005, a poll organised by Blender and MTV2 saw Mercury voted the greatest male singer of all time. In 2008, Rolling Stone editors ranked him number 18 on their list of the 100 greatest singers of all time. In 2009, a Classic Rock poll saw him voted the greatest rock singer of all time. Allmusic has characterised Mercury as "one of rock's greatest all-time entertainers", who possessed "one of the greatest voices in all of music"... Biographer David Bret described his voice as "escalating within a few bars from a deep, throaty rock-growl to tender, vibrant tenor, then on to a high-pitched, perfect coloratura, pure and crystalline in the upper reaches"."

Marc Martel:

"Some asshole."

>> ^NetRunner:

>> ^EvilDeathBee:
"There's no such thing as money. Money doesn't exist but you believe in it"
Seriously?

You know, that struck me as so mindbogglingly dumb I couldn't believe he said that out loud, much less on television.
But the more I think about it, maybe he was on to something. In a sense, he's right -- money isn't real. Money only works the way it does because we believe it will. You have to have faith in it, or it won't do anything.
The problem that creates for him is that if that is the definition of faith, then God is just as much of a man-made fiction as money is. He only exists through our collective belief in Him, and if we stop believing, He ceases to exist as a force in our lives.
Now of course, we could always go the same route we went with money -- set up an enforcement mechanism so that if people try to operate outside the monetary system, they get jailed. That'll make believers out of everyone, right?
Maybe someday we'll realize just how right that guy was...


We already have a system which forces people to operate within the monetary system. OK, it's not as extreme as your example, but courts only enforce contracts if parties agree to pay compensation/damages/etc in our government's fiat currency. It's called legal tender law

I don't think ground beef requires tenderizing Also, never knew ground beef could be bought in giant tubes....

"unauthorized mint"

See? It's unauthorized because it'd be competing with the USD. If I wanted to open my own phone company, would it be fair to have AT&T "authorize" my operation?

And no checks and credit cards still use USD, so they're not competing currencies. Follow the money. If at the end of it it's USD, then it's not a competing currency. It goes like this. I purchase a gift card for $20 USD. That gift card isn't its own currency with its own value, it's only valued in USD, so it's essentially $20 in USD. Watch me turn this US Dollar into a US Dollar! Abracadabra!

Lastly, not sure why you think the Liberty Dollar was counterfeit. They never claimed they were legal tender. Only a competing currency backed by a valued commodity: gold. But every monopoly hates competition, so the US Government decided to not only stop the Liberty Dollary, they also confiscated stole the company's gold reserves.

Not being hostile. Just bringing the slaps across the cheeks with my ball sacks.

@blankfist you're obviously still in one of these really hostile moods.

First, I said "The way I understand it..." which is to say, I myself was indicating I didn't know for sure.

Second, you've not actually invalidated what I said at all. A guy who wants to start his own currency, but then gets indicted and convicted for running an unauthorized coin mint, and fraudulently presenting those coins as legal tender, doesn't prove that making your own currency is illegal, it means running an unauthorized mint and using the coins as counterfeit dollars is illegal.

On your other link, all it says is that you need a license to transmit currency across state lines, and describes the regulations that apply. Nothing from that link says you have to conduct your transactions in dollars.

You also haven't addressed the examples I provided. Are you saying credit cards and checks are illegal? Are you saying WoW gold and gift cards are illegal? That they're not currency? What about Ithaca Hours? What about all of these?

I honestly don't care whether it's illegal to use alternative currencies or not. I'm mostly just trying to cheer you up by trying to convince you that you're not actually as oppressed as you think you are.

>> ^NetRunner:

>> ^blankfist:
And he's right about the "governmentally fixed price for gold", and if it was legal in this country to offer competing currencies I don't think many people would care whether the USD was backed by gold or not. But because we're forced to use one central currency, it should at the very least be value backed.

The way I understand it, you can legally offer and accept another currency, it's just that you aren't allowed to refuse to accept dollars as settlement of debts incurred.
That's why it's legal to use gold, bitcoins, gift cards, frequent flyer miles, Xbox live points, WoW gold, etc. Even credit cards and checks aren't actually legal tender.


mo·nop·o·ly /məˈnäpəlē/ Noun
The exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service.

So, two questions. 1. would you say the US government has "control" over the supply or trade of the commodity of monies?

2. If you can "legally offer and accept another currency" why did these guys get raided if competing currency is legal? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Dollar#Federal_Government_response

>> ^blankfist:

And he's right about the "governmentally fixed price for gold", and if it was legal in this country to offer competing currencies I don't think many people would care whether the USD was backed by gold or not. But because we're forced to use one central currency, it should at the very least be value backed.


The way I understand it, you can legally offer and accept another currency, it's just that you aren't allowed to refuse to accept dollars as settlement of debts incurred.

That's why it's legal to use gold, bitcoins, gift cards, frequent flyer miles, Xbox live points, WoW gold, etc. Even credit cards and checks aren't actually legal tender.

>> ^ChaosEngine:

All paper currency is perceived value. That's the point of it.If that's the point of a currency, then what's the point to your original post?
>> ^ChaosEngine:

It has no intrinsic worth, but it's part of the social contract that we collectively endow it with value.So WE collectively devalued the US dollar 98% the last 40 years? We did this... to further a social contract? So it helps people to free them from 98% of their wealth???
If anything, subscribing to a fiat currency based on debt is in DIRECT violation of any social contract.
>> ^ChaosEngine:

If you want to trade gold as a currency, go aheadCan't unless people have the right to refuse payment in US Dollars. Legal tender laws prevent it.
>> ^ChaosEngine:

It's just not a very good standard. Iron would be better.Let the market decide then. Iron ore is not fungible. Plus iron is consumed. Gold is held.
>> ^ChaosEngine:

If you have tonnes of iron, you can build stuff.
As for what you measure energy cost in, well, I don't know about you, but I measure energy in joules.
I'm starting to think you're not even being serious.

I totally want to bring back coin purses. I want to throw a bag full of money at a bar tender.

since i am not a musician but just a lowly appreciator of music i submit a voice that i find amazing for such a young and tender age:
http://videosift.com/video/cooler-than-me-mike-posner-cover-by-jayme-dee

I don't know what the man's race has to do with the policy; but as long as his opposition keeps tendering characters that are many times more trigger-happy, unstable, and mendacious, he and any other rational, cool-headed person of color will have a decent shot at the job.

>> ^ForgedReality:
First and last black president ever.

there are some things in life that will always remain constant.
the sky is blue.
the sun will rise..
and burdy will always get his panties tied in a knot about something or other that offended his tender sensibilities.
why?
because they are tender.
and yeah..BK could be a flaming dickwad but he was OUR flaming dickwad.
why ban when you can delve into utter humiliation?
more effective and faaar more entertaining.
banning is BOOORING.

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Seems similar to one I got a few years ago:

This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US Department of Energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water utility. After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC regulated channels to see what the national weather service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined the weather was going to be like using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. I watched this while eating my breakfast of US Department of Agriculture inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the Food and Drug Administration.

At the appropriate time as regulated by the US congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the US Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration approved automobile and set out to work on the roads build by the local, state, and federal departments of transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the Environmental Protection Agency, using legal tender issed by the Federal Reserve Bank. On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the US Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school.

After spending another day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, enjoying another two meals which again do not kill me because of the USDA, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to ny house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and fire marshal's inspection, and which has not been plundered of all it's valuables thanks to the local police department.

I then log on to the internet which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration and post on freerepublic.com and fox news forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the government can't do anything right.